Screen capture over more than one screen in depth

[John Gray]

I have that nasty feeling that I've been here before, and I've read the recent threads on Screen Capturing and done a search but 17 pages is a bit much to wade through!

So I'm asking whether anyone knows of a - very preferably free - utility which will capture a screen image and scroll down past the end of the screen however far, to save the entire web page. It would be nice to restrict the long rectangle's horizontal section to be captured, too.

I've tried the Snipping Tool (in Windows 7) but I can't find any way of saving information 'below the bottom of the current window'.
No Firefox add-on is possible because I'm stuck with the Chrome browser at work.
I suspect Snagit would do the job but it's wickedly expensive at $50, especially for once-in-a-blue-moon use.

[StuartR]

IT's not free, but I use Faststone Capture to do this.

[HansV]

See Documenting configurations using screen capture.

Some candidates:
ScreenPresso. There is a free version.
PicPick. Free for personal use, $25 for commercial use.
DuckLink Screen Capture. Free
I use FastStone Capture. $19.95 for a lifetime license.

[Rudi]

Hi John,

I use PicPick (Free).
I has quite a decent scrolling window capture...

Here is a sample from a long thread.

Scrolling Small.jpg

[John Gray]

Thanks, Stuart and Hans.

FastStone Capture is better priced, but I've tried Ducklink Screen Capture which worked on a brief test even though the software seems to have been abandoned four years ago, and some website links don't.
ScreenPresso seems to be far more fully featured, and all I have to do now is to find where they've hidden the "crop" function in its image editor...

Thanks also, Rudi - but I'm doing this at work!

[John Gray]

I have that nasty feeling that I've been here before, and I've read the recent threads on Screen Capturing and done a search but 17 pages is a bit much to wade through!

Hans - thanks for the link to my almost-identical three-years-ago thread, which is but a distant memory - and not even that!

[Rudi]

Not to sure what you mean by doing it at work?
You asked for options for free screen capturers.

(I used to use ScreenPresso, but switched to PicPick as i found the former was getting to bloated!)
PicPick also has some great tools in its wings.

[HansV]

John meant that PicPick is only free for personal use, not for use at work.

[Rudi]

Ah, so the scope of use he plans for is wider than just using it on his PC. Ta.

[JoeP]

Give Greenshot a try. It is free and open source.

[John Gray]

Thanks, Joe - I''ll compare Greenshot with ScreenPresso...

[John Gray]

Joe - I'm undoubtedly stupid, but I can't find any reference in the Greenshot documentation to being able to do "screen capture over more than one screen in depth".

Do you use it for that?

[HansV]

As far as I can tell from the website (I don't use Greenshot myself), that only works in Internet Explorer:

(...) you can even capture complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer.

Capture Internet Explorer Control + Shift + Print

Comfortably creates a screenshot of a web page currently opened in Internet Explorer.
Use Greenshot's context menu to select the Internet Explorer tab to capture, or hit
Crtl + Shift + Print to capture the active tab.

[John Gray]

Thanks, Hans - that would explain it, since I was using <urgh> Chrome...

[HansV]

The other products mentioned in this thread can capture content from any vertically scrolling window, as far as I know. I'm not sure about horizontally scrolling windows.